Spoiler Athletics

Due to rain delays and early games going to extra innings, the Spoiler Baseball team's state quarterfinal game will begin about 8:00. You can watch on BEK tv, channel 605 on midco! GO SPOILERS!!!

Get out and line the streets of Grafton today as our local first responders send off our baseball team to state. Movement will start at 11:45 this morning! The Spoilers open tournament play around 6:30 tonight vs Bottineau in Jamestown!

SPRING SPORTS! It has been an extremely busy last week or so in Spring Sports, as the school year and each sport approach the finish line. Track is currently competing at the State Meet in Bismarck. We have already seen great success for track and field as their season comes to a close. Yesterday at the state meet, Spoiler Senior Jordan Sunstrom placed 6th in shot put. Last week, Spoiler Senior Jack Kern was selected as the boys Senior Athlete of the Year for our region, while the girl's varsity team took 1st place. Way to go ladies! Also, girls head coach Krysten Stutlien was chosen as Region Girls Track Coach of the Year! The State meet will pick back up again at 1:00 today and finish tomorrow. The Spoiler Softball team finished 1st in the North Division of Region 2. Unfortunately, the Spoilers were upset in the opening round of the Region tournament by the Carrington Cardinals to bring their season to a close. Special congratulations to Spoiler Seniors Siri Olson and Nicole Johnson for earning All-Region honors. Also, a big thank you to all the people who helped work at the Region tournament held here in Grafton this past Monday and Tuesday! Spoiler Boys Golf is nearing the end of their season. They have a state qualifying meet on Saturday in Lakota and then head to the Regional Meet on Tuesday in Devils Lake. Shootout to Spoiler Sophomore Reggie Rice who previously qualified for State at the Cavalier meet earlier this month. The Spoiler Baseball team has had quite the season. The Spoilers qualified for the state tournament on Wednesday in dramatic fashion by winning the Region 4 Championship over Park River Area. The Spoilers will begin state tournament action Thursday, May 30th at about 6:15 vs Bottineau. The tournament will be played at Jack Brown Stadium in Jamestown. Special Congrats to Tony Villarreal, Kyler Droog, Ryan Hanson and Ty Storey for being selected to the All-Region team and Tony for being chosen as Region 4 Senior Athlete of the Year! Go Spoilers!

SPOILER BASEBALL IS HEADED TO STATE. It has been a whirlwind the last few days for Spoiler Extracurriculars, plenty of updates ahead!

Congratulations to all spoilers involved with State Music in Bismarck! it was a highly successful event! Spoilers took home 9 stars out of their 14 entries, the highest possible rating. An added congratulations to Emily Kerian, who earned an outstanding performance award, which is only given once per judge. She will be honored at the 2025 Parade of Champions presentation!

Attention 6th-11th grade parents! There was an email sent out about summer weight training last week. If you are interested your student needs to login and fill out the google doc using their gospoilers email, parents will not be able to fill out. The link to the doc is on the gospoilers.org website.

We had fun in Bismarck while we were there. We checked out the mall and had some wood fire pizza. Congratulations to these two that competed at the state tournament. Bryce in Extemporaneous Speaking and Vangie in Inform.

We started our morning off with the walkthrough for our two students competing at the State Speech Meet tomorrow in Mandan. Congratulations to Vangie Larson and Bryce Kringstad for qualifying for state.

Members of Concert Choir and HS band were able to participate in the regional small group contest with their high school peers! It was a massive success with 14/27 of the entries receiving the highest possible rating and are eligible to move on to State Music in May! (Only 33% of entries can advance) Spoiler Freshman Emily Kerian also received an Outstanding Performance award, which are only awarded once per judge! Congratulations to all students involved. We are proud to have such dedicated students. Spoilers rocked. The following students have advanced to State Music! On to Bismarck! Go Spoilers! Izzy Jenkins Cove Johnson Mia Kasprick Vangie Larson Lexi Tompkins Natalie Bina Aubrey Tompkins Kathleen Kerian Bryar Morin Summer Moberg Vaya Stark Emily Bjerke Elsie Jelinek Aria Braaten Jen Reck Alyssa Heidt Summer Ebertowski Emersyn Van Camp Emily Kerian Ruby Gerszewski Trinity Parsons Julia Heidt Emma Narloch Samara O Izzy Cole Jack Kern Carther Stark Terry Denault Charlie Taylor Max Sillers Josh Lindberg Nate Denton Bryson Almen Jackson Douville Bryar Morin Aiden Rahn Jonathan Presteng Go Spoilers!

We competed at our Regional tournament at Northwood this past Saturday. We have Bryce Kringstad who is a regional champion in Extemporaneous Speaking and will be competing at the state tournament. We also have Vangie Larson who took second place in the category of Inform. She will also be competing at the state competition. Congratulations to all of these kids and all of the hard work that they have put in this season! Humorous Duo 💬: Vangie Larson and Natalie Larson 4th place Impromptu 💬: Dean Maney 8th place Entertain 💬: Natalie Bina 8th Place Inform 💬: Vangie Larson 2nd Place Poetry 💬: Cadence Kerner competitor Radio 💬: Cadence Kerner 6th Place Serious 💬: Terry Denault competitor Extemp 💬: Bryce Kringstad 1st place

We competed at the Park River speech meet this past Saturday. Big thanks to Ms.Lopez for driving them. We are looking forward to Regionals this weekend in Northwood. Humorous Duo 💬: Vangie Larson and Natalie Larson 6th Place Impromptu 💬: Dean Maney competitor Entertain 💬: Natalie Bina Competitor Inform 💬: Vangie Larson 2nd Place Humorous 💬: Natalie Bina Competitor

For anyone interested in playing at the next level, take a look at this.

Complete the form below to sign up for Summer Strength & Conditioning. All students going to be in 7-12th for the 24-25 school year can sign up! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfEgvOib-tAE8l72x72eb4-E_2H1wLGbtS9iRWtBZtIOW4h5g/viewform?usp=sf_link

Come see what these hard working 6-8th graders have created! Show runtime is 60 minutes!

Spoiler Youth Basketball Camp Who: Boys/Girls K-4 (2023-2024 school year) When: May 20th, 21st, 22nd Time: May 20th, 21st ( K-1 4:00 to 5:00, 2-4 5:15 to 6:30) May 22nd ( K-1 3:00 to 4:00, 2-4 4:15 to 5:30) Where: Grafton Century Gym Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IFMLr2y0VaS01UnychxbEww07dU13f-vD8YsZkLvlPM/edit?usp=sharing

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We competed in the Hillsboro speech meet on Saturday March 23rd. We had five students competing. Natalie had to leave a little early so she is not pictured. Humorous Duo 💬: Terry Denault and Charlie Taylor competitors Serious 💬: Terry Denault competitor Poetry 💬: Cadence Kerner competitor Impromptu 💬: Dean Maney 8th place Entertain 💬: Natalie Bina 6th place Persuade 💬: Charlie Taylor 7th place

We forgot one winter sports award winner from yesterday. Boys Basketball Coach Riley Lillemoen was also named Region 2 Boys Basketball Coach of the Year. Way to go Coach!

The Grafton Concert Choir represented at the North Dakota Music Educators association conference in Bismarck on Thursday! They were honored as the featured choir of the state for the concert hour! We are proud of all of these bright young kids and the joy that they bring through music! You can watch the concert session here! https://youtu.be/fHbVp6TcEvM?si=iSogz0b2xHXWUuV7

Our winter season wound down last weekend and we had several individuals receive individual accomplishments. Hockey - Siri Olson was both All-EDC and All-State Girls Basketball - Kate LeClerc was named All Region Wrestling - Kruiser Burns, Shaiden Thomas, and Emma Johner qualified for state with Kruiser winning the state title at 121 pounds. Boys Basketball - Braylon Baldwin, Tony Villarreal, and Kyler Droog were named All-Region. At the state tournament, Braylon and Kyler were named to the All Tournament team. Braylon also received All State Honors. Congrats to our winter sport athletes!